Opinion - Vancouver Courier Archive

Now that spring break is over, many unanswered questions for Vancouver students and parents

This will be the strangest week-after-spring-break ever in Vancouver schools. Teachers will be back at work, but kids won’t be in classes.

Mar 31, 2020 4:08 PM Read more >

PREST: It's OK to miss things, both big and small, lost in the pandemic

From personal safety to patio parties, we are united in a stay-at-home plan to get them back

Mar 31, 2020 3:40 PM Read more >

Mario’s COVID-19 Diary: Hunting monsters & speaking French: Home-school challenges begin

Like parents across B.C., Tri-City News journalist Mario Bartel and his wife are navigating working from home while figuring out how to maintain their seven-year-old’s education

Mar 31, 2020 8:52 AM Read more >

More than 460 people in B.C. recover from COVID-19

Vancouver Convention Centre prepared as off-site treatment centre to handle hospital overload

Mar 30, 2020 6:15 PM Read more >

Opinion: You might feel alone amid COVID-19, but you're not

We live in an extraordinary time with nearly everyone on this planet profoundly affected by the pandemic.

Mar 30, 2020 8:56 AM Read more >

Comment: Alternatives to toilet paper that are mostly not gross

There is plenty of toilet paper in town, but it mostly isn’t on store shelves. It’s stacked up in huge volume in homes. So, if you missed out on the great toilet-paper shopping spree, you might be running low, with no re-supply in sight.

Mar 30, 2020 6:00 AM Read more >

Mario’s Quarantine Diary, Day 14: Freedom is making a list, responsibility is staying home

The more it changes, the more it stays the same, as the 14-day self-isolation period for Tri-City News journalist Mario Bartel and his family comes to an end

Mar 28, 2020 7:02 PM Read more >

OPINION: Christy Clark deleted her controversial COVID-19 tweet

A change of heart for the former premier of B.C.?

Mar 28, 2020 4:46 PM Read more >

OPINION: Trudeau should reconsider decision to snub bigger companies in need of wage subsidies

At first blush, Justin Trudeau’s announcement Friday to subsidize employee wages got the principle dead right, but the application dead wrong.

Mar 28, 2020 11:04 AM Read more >

Mario’s Quarantine Diary, Day 13: ‘Shopping for meat is a very personal thing’

Tri-City News journalist Mario Bartel and family, while in COVID-19 quarantine, make a run for the border after a trip to the freezer looking for foodstuffs

Mar 27, 2020 10:17 AM Read more >